Ben Miller
@benwritesthings.bsky.social
writer, historian, @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
FASHION IS FINISHED: RUDI GERNREICH & THE COUNTERCULTURE (Norton/Pushkin, ~2027)
www.benwritesthings.com
www.badgayspod.com
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
FASHION IS FINISHED: RUDI GERNREICH & THE COUNTERCULTURE (Norton/Pushkin, ~2027)
www.benwritesthings.com
www.badgayspod.com
“Queer theory…is in its flop era.” My review of Kay Gabriel’s PERVERTS is out today in @thebaffler.com. Kay’s book is a funny and true antidote to the cheap sentiment of bad queer discourse, a reckoning with sex/gender as pleasure center and system requiring defeat. thebaffler.com/latest/we-wa...
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“Queer theory…is in its flop era.” My review of Kay Gabriel’s PERVERTS is out today in @thebaffler.com. Kay’s book is a funny and true antidote to the cheap sentiment of bad queer discourse, a reckoning with sex/gender as pleasure center and system requiring defeat. thebaffler.com/latest/we-wa...
i wasn’t emotionally prepared for what KLM stands for
November 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
i wasn’t emotionally prepared for what KLM stands for
In November of 1970, after a summer of student protests including the Kent State massacre, Rudi Gernreich showed military uniforms with guns. The nickname of the collection was "back to school." Here's the press release.
November 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
In November of 1970, after a summer of student protests including the Kent State massacre, Rudi Gernreich showed military uniforms with guns. The nickname of the collection was "back to school." Here's the press release.
reëlected to the board of directors at the Schwules Museum—the world’s largest independent museum and archive of queer history and visual culture—with more than 90% of votes.
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
reëlected to the board of directors at the Schwules Museum—the world’s largest independent museum and archive of queer history and visual culture—with more than 90% of votes.
if you only know her as a Poster;
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
if you only know her as a Poster;
- Michel Fouzoh
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
- Michel Fouzoh
ultras: not even once
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
ultras: not even once
Well if the Marx Engels Lenin Stalin Mao Institute says so...
it's been fascinating watching the algorithmic X feed run by a famous Nazi respond to Mamdani by promoting endless crap like this from verified accounts––almost as if it's part of a strategy or something.
it's been fascinating watching the algorithmic X feed run by a famous Nazi respond to Mamdani by promoting endless crap like this from verified accounts––almost as if it's part of a strategy or something.
November 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Well if the Marx Engels Lenin Stalin Mao Institute says so...
it's been fascinating watching the algorithmic X feed run by a famous Nazi respond to Mamdani by promoting endless crap like this from verified accounts––almost as if it's part of a strategy or something.
it's been fascinating watching the algorithmic X feed run by a famous Nazi respond to Mamdani by promoting endless crap like this from verified accounts––almost as if it's part of a strategy or something.
The Taz alleges that during sweeping budget cuts, Berlin's CDU directed taxpayer money for "fighting antisemitism" to a real estate company led by the German equivalent of "John Doe" registered as business number 12345 with a tax number of 123456789.
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The Taz alleges that during sweeping budget cuts, Berlin's CDU directed taxpayer money for "fighting antisemitism" to a real estate company led by the German equivalent of "John Doe" registered as business number 12345 with a tax number of 123456789.
Updates from the Cuomo party, more glasses of Worst People In The World Tears! (Can't wait for the same people to lose it at the @schumer.senate.gov loss party in 2028)
November 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Updates from the Cuomo party, more glasses of Worst People In The World Tears! (Can't wait for the same people to lose it at the @schumer.senate.gov loss party in 2028)
delicious AND nutritious! drink up,
November 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
delicious AND nutritious! drink up,
hello may i offer you some
delicious glasses of Worst People In The World Tears ?
delicious glasses of Worst People In The World Tears ?
November 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
hello may i offer you some
delicious glasses of Worst People In The World Tears ?
delicious glasses of Worst People In The World Tears ?
This week, ronald m. schernikau’s SMALLTOWNNOVELLA, a classic of west German gay liberation literature, is being published in English in Lucy Lee Jones’ brilliant translation for the first time. My afterword is out today in @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/latest/innoc...
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This week, ronald m. schernikau’s SMALLTOWNNOVELLA, a classic of west German gay liberation literature, is being published in English in Lucy Lee Jones’ brilliant translation for the first time. My afterword is out today in @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/latest/innoc...
real footage of bought and paid for quisling @sethmoulton.bsky.social taking a position on any given topic
November 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
real footage of bought and paid for quisling @sethmoulton.bsky.social taking a position on any given topic
Donald Trump remains broadly loathed by the American public, and the Democrats remain broadly loathed to the point where they've now lost to him twice.
November 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Donald Trump remains broadly loathed by the American public, and the Democrats remain broadly loathed to the point where they've now lost to him twice.
“Well,”
- Sandra Bullock
- Sandra Bullock
November 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“Well,”
- Sandra Bullock
- Sandra Bullock
if you people are sufficiently annoying about Mayor Piet we will simply be forced to do an episode of @badgayspod.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 AM
if you people are sufficiently annoying about Mayor Piet we will simply be forced to do an episode of @badgayspod.bsky.social
Sarah Ferguson, who apologized to Jeffrey Epstein for criticizing him and begged him for money, has a better net favorability rating with the British public than Meghan Markle, whose mother is Black.
October 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Sarah Ferguson, who apologized to Jeffrey Epstein for criticizing him and begged him for money, has a better net favorability rating with the British public than Meghan Markle, whose mother is Black.
Nine years in and German supermarkets are still capable of shocking me.
October 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Nine years in and German supermarkets are still capable of shocking me.
Eine Presse, die fragt, „wie antisemitisch“ (der Antisemitismus ist immer schon gegeben) ein Plakat ist, das einen Stopp der Waffenlieferungen an das, was die UNO und einschlägige Experten als Völkermord bezeichnen, fordert, sollte sich nicht über den Aufstieg des Faschismus wundern.
October 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Eine Presse, die fragt, „wie antisemitisch“ (der Antisemitismus ist immer schon gegeben) ein Plakat ist, das einen Stopp der Waffenlieferungen an das, was die UNO und einschlägige Experten als Völkermord bezeichnen, fordert, sollte sich nicht über den Aufstieg des Faschismus wundern.
please enjoy the four and a half foot tall drawing of Michelangelo's 'David' custom commissioned from Tom Of Finland by ... Franco Zeffirelli.
October 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
please enjoy the four and a half foot tall drawing of Michelangelo's 'David' custom commissioned from Tom Of Finland by ... Franco Zeffirelli.
oh my Fucking God (first screenshot is my reply, second is his reply to me)
October 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
oh my Fucking God (first screenshot is my reply, second is his reply to me)
No reply to an unsolicited PR email is a reply, sweetie
October 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
No reply to an unsolicited PR email is a reply, sweetie
